by Administrator | Feb 7, 2021 | Quick Reads
The Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the city centre, was once the southernmost part of Sherwood Forest. Best known for being Goose Fair’s annual home and a site for park-and-riders, for over 300 years the Forest has hosted amateur sport. The son of a...
by Administrator | Oct 4, 2020 | Quick Reads
An attractive Trentside aspect with idyllic woodland, Wilford Grove, and its neighbour, Clifton Grove, attracted many a visitor from Nottingham and beyond. The area was a magnet for poets seeking inspiration and a place to write. It was in the churchyard of St....
by Administrator | Sep 27, 2020 | Quick Reads
Many Nottingham writers have taken inspiration from their memories of Southwell, including D.H. Lawrence, Alan Sillitoe, and B.S. Johnson, whose experimental book-in-a-box, ‘The Unfortunates’ (1969), includes Brian’s recollections of visiting Southwell with June,...
by Administrator | Sep 19, 2020 | Quick Reads
In the rolling acres of Robin Hood country, along a mile and a quarter of tree-lined road, is Newstead Abbey, surrounded by woodland, lakes, waterfalls and walled gardens. The Augustinian priory was built by Henry II, between 1163 and 1173, to atone for the murder of...
by Administrator | Aug 2, 2020 | Quick Reads
Before becoming Sneinton Market, the area was the site of a clay pipe workshop. Its nearest homes, back-to-back housing known as ‘the Bottoms’, were more like slums. William Booth, born 1829, described the Sneinton of his youth, recalling “the degradation and...
